Alexandra Arons Siegel

Alexandra Arons Siegel is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is also a faculty affiliate at Stanford's Immigration Policy Lab (IPL) and New York University’s Center for Social Media and Politics (CSMaP), as well as a member of EGAP.

Her research utilizes original datasets comprising hundreds of millions of social media posts, alongside text and network analysis, machine learning methods, and experimental approaches to examine mass and elite political behavior in the Arab world and other comparative contexts.

Dr. Siegel employs these tools to investigate the drivers and mitigators of intergroup conflict and intolerance, the consequences of repression, and the digital dimensions of conflict, which include the spread of online hate speech, extremism, and disinformation. Her work has been published in prominent journals such as the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, World Politics, Political Communication, and the Quarterly Journal of Political Science. Her research has received funding from the National Science Foundation and the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation.

She earned her PhD in Political Science from New York University in 2018. Additionally, she has served as a non-resident fellow at the Brookings Institution, a Junior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and a CASA Fellow at the American University in Cairo. Dr. Siegel holds a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations and Arabic from Tufts University.